Recommendable! The story of one of the forgotten Founding Fathers and Mothers!
"... Yet in his lifetime, and for at least a century thereafter, Witherspoon was widely esteemed as (in one writer’s words) “one of the great men of the age and the world.” More recently, a small but growing number of historians has concluded that he was probably “the most influential teacher in the entire history of American higher education” and the most important college president America has ever known. It seems not too much to say that, were it not for Witherspoon, American politics in the 1770s and 1780s might have taken a different trajectory. ..."
This is what you get, when you Google Search for this man (very sad, but politically correct I suspect):
Portrait of John Witherspoon, Presbyterian minister and President of Princeton University; the only clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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